Chapter Summaries

Wu Biao encountered Blackbeard at Marine Headquarters and learned he was about to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. After Blackbeard connected Wu Biao to Lafitte’s death, Wu Biao attacked him, leaving Blackbeard furious and surrounded by black mist.

• Brannew tried to keep Wu Biao and Blackbeard from recognizing their past conflict as he brought Blackbeard toward Headquarters.
• Blackbeard remembered Wu Biao and asked whether he had killed Lafitte, while Wu Biao remained oblivious and traded jokes with Koby, Helmeppo, and Brannew.
• Wu Biao abruptly challenged Blackbeard and landed a roundhouse kick that sent him crashing through a nearby building.
• Blackbeard rose from the rubble in pain, then released black mist and threatened to kill Wu Biao.

Wu Biao attacked Blackbeard at Marine Headquarters, but Blackbeard’s Dark-Dark Fruit could not suppress Wu Biao’s Hellfire or strength. Wu Biao sent Blackbeard crashing through a wall and, angered by how weak he seemed, advanced toward the ruins.

• Wu Biao judged Blackbeard to be unexpectedly weak and charged at him in a burst of Hellfire.
• Blackbeard used Black Vortex to pull Wu Biao toward him, expecting his darkness to suppress Wu Biao’s powers.
• Wu Biao let the pull draw him closer, then struck Blackbeard with a Hellfire-coated punch that burned through the dark mist.
• Blackbeard flew across the plaza and smashed through the outer wall, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Wu Biao’s overwhelming presence forced the watching Marines to their knees as he angrily walked toward the ruins and challenged Blackbeard for being so weak.

Wu Biao confronted Blackbeard in the Marine Headquarters plaza, while Sengoku and the Admirals chose not to intervene. Wu Biao discovered that Blackbeard’s darkness could not absorb his Hellfire and prepared a devastating attack against the buried pirate.

• Akainu and Kizaru discussed whether to stop Wu Biao, but Sengoku decided to let the fight continue and frame Blackbeard’s death as the result of a personal grudge.
• Sengoku privately hoped Garp would not act rashly, while the Marines in the plaza held back and watched Wu Biao.
• Wu Biao called for Blackbeard to emerge from the rubble, unaware that Hellfire and the pain caused by his Dark-Dark Fruit had left Blackbeard unable to respond.
• Wu Biao formed a massive Kannonji-dan filled with slashes and slammed it toward the rubble.

Blackbeard swallowed Wu Biao in darkness and claimed the Marine had been crushed, but Wu Biao survived and burned the darkness away. The battle ended with Wu Biao pinning Blackbeard down while Sengoku wondered about the source of his flames.

• Blackbeard used Black Hole to engulf Wu Biao and much of the plaza in darkness, then released it and declared that Wu Biao had been crushed.
• Blackbeard taunted the Marines and reminded them that he was a Warlord, while Sengoku, Kizaru, and Akainu reacted to his apparent victory.
• Wu Biao emerged from the black mist, grabbed Blackbeard by the neck, and burned the darkness with his flames.
• Wu Biao slammed Blackbeard to the ground and explained that the darkness had not harmed him because his Hellfire had spread through it.
• Sengoku felt relieved that Wu Biao had survived and grew more curious about the power of his flames.

Wu Biao and Blackbeard fought at close range, with Blackbeard’s gravity and durability letting him withstand and counter Wu Biao’s attacks despite being badly hurt by the pain. Wu Biao refused to use Limit State and kept pressing the fight, leaving Blackbeard battered and screaming after a series of punishing blows.

• Blackbeard realized Wu Biao could suppress the Dark-Dark Fruit and launched a desperate attack to kill him.
• Blackbeard used Black Vortex to pull Wu Biao close, then struck him hard enough to dislocate his jaw.
• Wu Biao and Blackbeard traded blows, and Wu Biao landed a Hellfire-wreathed kick that sent Blackbeard rolling across the ground.
• Blackbeard used Black Water to disrupt Wu Biao’s attack and punched him in the groin, briefly knocking him out of his fighting state.
• Wu Biao and Blackbeard charged into another exchange, and Wu Biao followed with a chest punch, a knee to Blackbeard’s head, and a Geppo-assisted kick to his abdomen.

Wu Biao relentlessly battered Blackbeard, whose Devil Fruit powers were countered by Wu Biao’s Hellfire and close-combat skill. Blackbeard struck back with darkness, rubble, and Kannonji-dan, but Wu Biao survived the blast and fixed his gaze on him, ready to continue fighting.

• Wu Biao caught up to Blackbeard and drove him headfirst into the ground with a Hellfire-wreathed kick.
• Wu Biao slammed Blackbeard in the abdomen and sent him flying, leaving Blackbeard convinced he would be beaten to death if the assault continued.
• Blackbeard unleashed darkness, then hurled Kannonji-dan and more than a hundred tons of plaza rubble at Wu Biao.
• The attack triggered a massive explosion that sent Marines flying and flattened the rubble.
• Wu Biao emerged bloodied but alive, identified Kannonji-dan as Master Kannonji’s ultimate technique, and locked onto Blackbeard for the next exchange.

Wu Biao defeated and killed Blackbeard after trapping him in a battle he could not escape, then revealed that his solemn final words had been an attempt to sound cool. Brannew, Koby, and the others arrived to find Wu Biao boasting at them.

• Blackbeard realized Sengoku’s Marines had sealed off his escape routes and feared that Wu Biao would kill him.
• Wu Biao repeatedly kicked Blackbeard into the ground, dismissing his protests and declaring that Blackbeard’s death was inevitable.
• Wu Biao punched through Blackbeard’s chest and killed him, while Blackbeard died still unwilling and remembering his days aboard Whitebeard’s ship.
• Wu Biao admired his own dramatic lines and admitted he thought they sounded cool.
• Brannew, Koby, and the others arrived, and Wu Biao warned them that he would knock them all down as they silently reconsidered finding him impressive.

Wu Biao ate in Sengoku’s office while Sengoku tried to explain the political consequences of killing a Seven Warlords of the Sea successor and coached him on what to tell the World Government. Wu Biao slept through the explanation, then Sengoku ordered him out just as Aokiji entered.

• Sengoku warned Wu Biao that the World Government might hold him accountable for killing a Seven Warlords of the Sea successor and told him to claim self-defense.
• Koby and Helmeppo brought Wu Biao a wild boar, which he devoured along with its bones while the officers watched in disbelief.
• Sengoku explained why the Seven Warlords helped maintain the balance of power, but Wu Biao fell asleep during the speech.
• Wu Biao woke when Sengoku threw an inkstone at him, then argued that pirates deserved punishment and asked Akainu what he would do; Akainu said he would kill them and abolish the Seven Warlords.
• Wu Biao compared Sengoku’s explanation to a sleep-inducing English lesson, so Sengoku shouted at him to get out just as Aokiji opened the door and froze.

Wu Biao spent the morning helping an elderly former Marine major bring her vegetable cart to the market and trading insults with the neighbors. Koby and Helmeppo then summoned him to Marine Headquarters because someone from the World Government had arrived, and Wu Biao assumed they had come to cause trouble.

• Wu Biao joked with neighbors who teased him about the trouble he had caused and his recent imprisonment.
• Wu Biao helped the elderly woman set up her stall, bought a pumpkin, and bluntly warned her against letting her grandson join the Marines.
• Koby and Helmeppo told Wu Biao that someone from the World Government had arrived and Rear Admiral Brannew wanted him at Marine Headquarters.
• Wu Biao declared he would punch anyone who looked for trouble, while Helmeppo urged him not to pick a fight.

Spandine confronted Wu Biao over the Enies Lobby incident and the killing of Blackbeard, but Garp took responsibility for the orders and silenced the investigation. Garp then left Sengoku’s office looking grief-stricken after discussing his captured grandson.

• Wu Biao sat down in Sengoku’s office and mocked Spandine, who accused him of helping the Straw Hat Pirates attack Enies Lobby and threatened to charge him with treason.
• Garp and Tsuru arrived, and Wu Biao offered to help Garp kill whoever had upset him.
• Garp told Spandine that he had ordered Wu Biao to go to Enies Lobby and kill Rob Lucci and Blackbeard, explaining that Blackbeard had captured his grandson.
• Garp insisted that the Five Elders could punish him instead, and Sengoku ordered Spandine to report Garp’s words before sending everyone else out.
• Wu Biao asked Koby and Helmeppo whether the Straw Hat Pirates had been captured, and Koby said he knew of no such capture.
• Garp left Sengoku’s office more than ten minutes later with sorrow on his face.

Marineford prepared for a major operation against Whitebeard while Sengoku learned that Wu Biao had changed course for the Sabaody Archipelago. The chapter left the island buzzing with news of Wu Biao, whose attacks on criminal pirates had made him feared by pirates and admired by civilians.

• Koby and Helmeppo discussed the tense atmosphere at Marineford and the Straw Hat Pirates’ arrival at Sabaody.
• Sengoku reviewed the assembled Marine forces and learned that Boa Hancock had not answered the summons.
• Brannew told Sengoku that Wu Biao had killed Capone Bege and redirected his course toward Sabaody.
• Sengoku ordered the warships to return and sent Kizaru and Aokiji to keep Wu Biao away from the archipelago.
• People across Sabaody shared stories about Wu Biao, while civilians praised him and pirates feared his arrival.

Wu Biao sailed toward the Sabaody Archipelago, dismissing the Supernovas as unworthy targets until Scratchmen Apoo insulted and attacked him. Wu Biao destroyed the On Air Pirates’ ship without killing its crew and ordered Apoo punished as the warship reached the archipelago.

• Wu Biao threatened his crew into continuing toward Sabaody and announced that he planned to challenge the Four Emperors instead of hunting the Supernovas.
• The Marines spotted Scratchmen Apoo and the On Air Pirates following their warship, but Wu Biao initially told his crew to ignore them.
• Apoo mocked Wu Biao’s bald head and provoked him with a musical attack, while the Marines fired cannonballs that Apoo sliced apart.
• Apoo dared Wu Biao to fire a larger projectile, so Wu Biao formed a giant Kannon Bullet and smashed the pirate ship apart.
• The On Air Pirates landed naked but alive on the warship, and Wu Biao ordered his Marines to pull out their hair and tie Apoo to the bow as a loudspeaker.

Wu Biao’s warship approached the Sabaody Archipelago, but Aokiji and Kizaru intercepted him on Sengoku’s orders to bring him back to Marine Headquarters. Wu Biao refused and insisted he would enter the New World to take on the Four Emperors.

• Wu Biao’s defeat of Apoo spread across Sabaody, where residents saw Apoo tied naked to the warship’s bow.
• Aokiji froze the sea to block Wu Biao’s warship, then arrived with Kizaru and told Wu Biao that Sengoku had ordered him back to headquarters.
• Wu Biao refused to return and declared he would steamroll the Four Emperors in the New World.
• Aokiji warned Wu Biao that the Four Emperors were formidable and urged him to return, while Kizaru said he had to follow Sengoku’s orders.
• Wu Biao dismissed Kizaru’s concerns and insisted he was going to the New World that day.

Wu Biao battled Kizaru and gradually adapted to his light-speed attacks, eventually striking him out of Yata Mirror. Aokiji stopped the fight and told Wu Biao that Portgas D. Ace would be publicly executed in ten days, prompting Wu Biao to return to Garp.

• Kizaru attacked Wu Biao at light speed, and their clash shattered the ice between the warships and sent one vessel sinking.
• Kizaru used Yata Mirror to strike Wu Biao across the sea and into Sabaody Archipelago, but Wu Biao survived and began adapting to his attacks.
• After blocking Kizaru's next kicks, Wu Biao sensed his movement path and kicked him out of Yata Mirror, surprising Kizaru and Aokiji.
• Wu Biao admitted he would lose if he kept fighting in his current state, but Aokiji interrupted the battle before it continued.
• Aokiji told Wu Biao that Portgas D. Ace would be publicly executed in ten days, and Wu Biao agreed to return to Garp.

As Marineford prepared for the imminent execution of Portgas D. Ace, Wu Biao spoke with the Fat Boss and revealed that he planned to return home after the coming battle. The town’s residents were due to be evacuated to the Sabaody Archipelago the next day.

• Marineford residents discussed the Straw Hat Pirates’ attack on a World Noble, the capture or deaths of several Supernovas, and the impending execution of Portgas D. Ace.
• Wu Biao bought the Fat Boss’s remaining cigarettes and joked that they might not see him again after the battle.
• Wu Biao clarified that he meant he would go home after the battle, having been away for more than half a year.
• Wu Biao returned to Garp’s residence and found it empty because Garp had gone to Impel Down.
• Marineford prepared to move residents’ families to the Sabaody Archipelago the next day to keep them safe during the coming war.

Wu Biao left Marineford Town as the Marines prepared to execute Portgas D. Ace in a broadcast watched around the world. Sengoku revealed that Ace was the son of Gol D. Roger, and the revelation plunged the audience into uproar.

• Wu Biao said goodbye to Marineford Town and walked away, leaving his officer's cape behind.
• Residents of Marineford Town and people across the Sabaody Archipelago gathered to watch the preparations for Ace's execution.
• Portgas D. Ace was brought onto the execution platform, and Garp avoided looking at him as Sengoku approached.
• Sengoku asked Ace to name his father, and Ace said Whitebeard was his old man.
• Sengoku revealed that Ace's mother, Portgas D. Rouge, had carried him for twenty months after Roger's death and identified Gol D. Roger as Ace's father.
• People watching the broadcast around the world erupted when they learned the Pirate King's bloodline had survived.

Sengoku revealed Ace’s heritage, while Whitebeard’s fleet emerged beneath Marineford and launched the rescue battle. Whitebeard’s attack raised a tsunami that Aokiji froze, and the Marines recognized Whitebeard’s declining strength as the war began.

• Sengoku said the Marines had discovered Ace was the Pirate King’s son, and Ace insisted he had joined Whitebeard’s crew so Pops could become Pirate King.
• Wu Biao fought three opponents on the road to Marine Headquarters and commented on the revealed history of Ace’s parents.
• Whitebeard’s fleet surfaced inside Crescent Bay, and Whitebeard demanded to know whether his son was safe.
• Whitebeard cracked the air with his fists and raised enormous tsunamis around Marineford.
• Aokiji froze the waves and the harbor, then the Marines noted Whitebeard’s weakened condition and considered targeting him first.

Wu Biao defeated Vice Admirals Gion, Tokikake, and Onigumo, then arrived at Marine Headquarters during the battle to rescue Ace. His appearance shocked Sengoku as Little Oars Jr. approached the harbor.

• Gion, Tokikake, and Onigumo admitted defeat after Wu Biao overwhelmed them, and Tokikake proposed to Gion again.
• Whitebeard's pirates and the Marines clashed across the frozen harbor while Sengoku watched from the execution platform.
• Little Oars Jr. emerged from the sea and smashed a warship as the Marines scrambled to stop him from entering the harbor.
• Ace felt guilty when he saw Little Oars Jr. come to help him.
• Wu Biao appeared beside Ace on the execution platform, and Sengoku realized he had defeated the three vice admirals sent to keep him away.
• Wu Biao asked Ace whether he was Ace.

At Marineford, Wu Biao honored Ace’s mother before launching himself into battle and knocking Little Oars Jr. into the sea with one punch. He then unleashed Conqueror’s Haki across the battlefield, ordered the fallen attacked, and challenged Garp to fight.

• Wu Biao told Ace that his mother had held him for twenty months and urged him to live well, while Sengoku realized Wu Biao intended to intervene.
• Wu Biao charged across the sea and punched Little Oars Jr. into the air, and Aokiji froze the giant and the surrounding water after he crashed down.
• Wu Biao entered Crescent Harbor and released Conqueror’s Haki, knocking out more than half of the Marines and pirates on the battlefield.
• Wu Biao ordered the survivors to attack the fallen and leave no survivors, while Koby and Helmeppo pretended to be unconscious.
• Wu Biao reached the execution platform and challenged Garp to come down and fight.

Wu Biao challenged Garp and fought him in a brutal close-quarters battle that stunned both Marines and Whitebeard’s crew. As the two unleashed even greater Haki and strength, their clash sent them sliding apart across the shattered ice.

• Wu Biao challenged Garp, and the two charged at each other without explanation.
• Wu Biao and Garp traded punches and close-range blows, devastating the execution platform and surrounding ice.
• The battlefield cleared as Whitebeard, Sengoku, Kizaru, Marco, and Aokiji watched the fight.
• Garp and Wu Biao ended their warm-up and powered up with Armament Haki and other abilities.
• Wu Biao and Garp clashed again at blinding speed, cracking the ice and carving trenches as they slid backward.